It is halftime at Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. Today is the twelfth day of the giveaway and we got 12 more to go. We made lots of Ghacks visitors happy by sending them licenses to great commercial software products such as Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, Cyberlink PowerDVD08 or Bitdefender Total Security. TuneUp is a plugin (some call it extension) for the Apple iTunes software that is supplied as a free and a gold version. There are only two differences between those two versions of TuneUp which will be addressed later in the article.
Both versions of TuneUp are available for Microsoft Windows PCs and Apple Macintosh computers with the limitation that it is currently only working on Intel Based Mac’s running 10.5 or greater. Installation is uncomplicated and the TuneUp bar loads automatically the next time iTunes is started on the computer. The last step before the features can be used is the registration process which takes only a few seconds in iTunes.
TuneUp adds four options to iTunes: Cleaning mislabeled music, finding missing cover art, exploring music and concert notifications.
Adding Meta Tags:
The Clean tab makes TuneUp search for missing meta data in its database. This is simply done by dragging and dropping songs into the TuneUp sidebar. The songs will be analyzed automatically. TuneUp will divide hits into matches and likely matches. Matches have a success rate of 99% while likely matches are about 80-90% correct on average.
All missing metadata, including album art, will be added to the song or album. This tab also provides access to a save all button which is available in the matches and likely matches tab. It is for example possible to save all matches directly in one go and evaluate the likely matches before saving them separately.
Album Cover Art Finder:
TuneUp will automatically scan the iTunes library for songs or albums that are missing cover art and display possible hits in its sidebar. Four different possible images are shown for every album that is missing cover art and it is up to the user to pick the one that is fitting best. Impatient users can click on the Save All button to save all cover art automatically. This will automatically select the first match as the new cover art for the music.
This is a very convenient way of adding missing cover album art to a music collection. Users who do not rely solely on iTunes will be delighted to hear that the cover art is integrated into the music directly which makes it available to other applications as well.
Now Playing:
This combines music recommendations with videos taken directly from Youtube and other news about the song or artist. The videos play directly in iTunes and there are also links to buy merchandise, tickets or music.
Concerts:
This tab will inform the user about local concerts of bands that are in the music collection.
Finally the differences between TuneUp and TuneUp Gold. The free version of the iTunes plugin is limited to 50 cover arts and 500 song cleanups. That’s the only difference.
You can win a copy of TuneUp Gold with a comment on this article. Let us know what software you are currently using to play and manage your music.
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Nice giveawy
Ohh yes please… my itunes is a mess, lol! thanks xx
Very nice! I’ve heard of TuneUp but haven’t tried it out yet. No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to break away from iTunes. Improved tagging and concert notifications are the two features I’d love to see in it.
I’m currently using GimmeSomeTune, which adds covers and lyrics to the songs played, but I have to get the names by hand, which with a collection of 70 GB in music is quite hard.
this sounds nice, but i listen to some pretty obscure music, not sure how well it would do. plus i like my cover art to be at least 700×700, and apps like this tend to go to Amazon and grab tiny thumbnails that look awful when you make Coverflow fullscreen :)
Seriously…would love to have copy of this software! Hope to win!
Garbanzo it was able to identify all but 2 songs that have not been tagged yet in my music collection out of 350 songs. While I’m not sure how obscure your music is I have to say that it identified some of the lesser known tracks of my collection perfectly.
I suggest you try out the free version to see how it works :)
TuneUp looks like to me a great tool to tune up my iTunes library What i still not understand or the added, before missing, cover album art is also possible to add (copy) to a different music collection from lets say Windows media player.
sounds like a very useful software extension for itunes. Didn’t knew about it, but after reading your description i will really love a licence for it, till then, i’m going to download the free version, for testing. Thanks Martin. :-)
looks good! i’m an audiophile, but i’ve never heard of this.
i basically use itunes and winamp to manage my music.
used tune up free–great stuff–and yes w/ pretty obscure music…mediamonkey has some pretty cool features to grab art too…love to have tuneup gold
Hey, I’dloove to score thegoldversion of this
! I’vebeenusingthefreeversionof thisonmyPCand I hadsignedupfornotificationonwhen itwouldbereleasedonMac.
I LOVE IT
The trial TuneUp is pretty cool, but definitely needs a more modern PC. UI doesn’t seem to matches iTunes or Windows. You’d think that they’d try to match iTunes.
I would love a full version just to see what it can do.
Would love to get a copy of this
sounds interesting…
This looks like it could save a lot of time for those album arts!
Clean all my library is a hard job.
itunes and winamp
Sounds ideal to sort out my library
itunes…meh
I love music ;-)
I use itunes and VLC and I would love a copy, thanks!
I now only use Itunes to manage my musiclibrary…
I would like to use this software!!
nice!
I’d love this to fix all my album art…
Today’s the Day, I know it!
I always wanted this program but never had the money to shell out for it!
I currently use Foobar 2000 to play my music and Tag & Rename to edit my mp3 tags and add cover art.
I’m a big fan of MediaMonkey for some of the look-up functions, but I also like the ease of use for tagging and editing from Tag and Rename as well as TagScanner…
Especially since tagscanner is light on resources and very portable
I also use VLC and foobar2000 and yes, even WMP and iTunes of course!
I’m in but waiting for the CrossOver giveaway.
More, more, more. . . need to fill the new hard drive with goodies!
Thanks in advance. . . ;-)
one more try …
me please – nothing used atm
Look’s nice !
I just purchased my wife an ipod and her library is extremely messy. This would be the icing on the cake! I really want to win this one.
I currently use itunes to manage music, podcasts and getting things onto my ipod. But if I’m working on things that require more resources (photoshop, 3D Modelers, etc.) I switch to foobar2k and listen to music with that. Either way I still use iTunes to manage tags and album art so this would be a great piece of software to have!
I would love to win this for my other half but don’t know what software he currently uses.
Roll me in too ^^
Please enter my name into the prize draw
foobar but my mislabeled songs could use some help
J. River does that for me, I should try this one, but I hate iTunes xD
put me in
My iTunes is a complete mess – it would help manage my music
I love my MediaMonkey but automatic cleanup sounds good to me!
This is software that I use regularly use. Sure would be nice to get the TuneUp Gold.
Never heard of it…however looks brill! Could keep things very nicely organised!! :)
Hello I would love this for me so i could make a review in my site :) I use Itunes to manage and play my music for almost 2 years before that i used to use Windows Media Player but since i got a mac i love using iTunes
My mp3 libary is a mess and now with that new IPhone I need to clean it up. Sounds like a lot of work which could be automated by using this cool App!
Awesome – this would be perfect.
awesome
I currently use iTunes, and this looks like a fab tool to get my music organised!
I’d love to get my hands on this as I use iTunes all the time.
I need to organize my 40GB of music. (iTunes) I dont have the time to get it in order. This is what I have been looking for!
I actually just downloaded this today to try it out. I’m using itunes, but half the music I have is either mistagged or has no artwork, was looking for someway to do it in batch mode. This looks to fit the bill.
Me please!
I’ve just read about this it looks great!
Tried several similar ones like Fixtunes and Picard but still looking for the perfect solution…Hope this is it! :)
I’m currently using Media Monkey to manage my music collection.
One for me please ! Thnx !
Please help me with my iTunes mess….
am using window media player and limewire
would love to win as would be much better
I use mac itunes to play and manage my library. This program looks sweet
Would love to give this a try!
I don’t use anything, and it shows.
Sounds like a great program. I have iTunes on Windows Vista, and approximately 50 gigs of music. Would save me a lot of time instead of scouring the internet for names/art.
Please help me with all this mess.Please!!! :)
I use iTunes. TuneUp is great!
I would love to try out the full version of this software.
This Is The biggest breakthrough i have had in YEARS
I Only use Itunes to play music because none of the other players are nearly as nice
i have Now 32 – now 68 in my itunes library and all of them have the wrong album art and song names
I really need this type of program…my ipod is a mess.
i’d love a copy! i use itunes and have about 80gb i’d love help organising!
Would love it :D
i would usually copy album art and insert those pesky album info and artist info MANUALLY!!
This is so cool…i am so getting this
I am currently using Itunes to play my music, as i use my Ipod in conjuction with it..
Been using Tuneup for a while, I’d love a copy of it! i can’t afford to waste time to look up each and every cover art for every single album lol
I use iTunes to manage and I play it on my MBP and my iPhone…I would love a copy of gold, Tune Up is awesome.
I used one time another programe called fixtune(I think).
My itune was a mess, it had like 3 same song,some ?tag and cover.
I heard about this and tried the trial, it is simply amazing.
Easu to use.
Great software.
fantastic application for itunes
i use itunes.. i tried to freetrial, looks really promising.
is the giveaway gold edition still apply??? :) ta
This software looks really good. i used a public domain one that screwed up all my music, i thought this one might fix it up. should work really well with my itunes library
i use itunes to manage my music on windows. i’d love it if you’re still giving it out :D
Hey this looks brilliant
i’d love one if u are giving them out still
thanks!
itunes on mac
haha i saw this and was like sweet (Y)
using itunes on windows – hopefully soon to be mac :D
be really sweet if i could get my hands on a copy, if you could, bit late yeah? thanks
i used iArt but now i tried tune up, and i liked it :D
i hope i can get the gold version
I currently use iTunes, and this looks like a useful tool for getting my music organized!
How can i get tuneup gold for free
I use itunes I need this to edit the 20gb of music I have this would be a great product. I am looking for a useful tools to clean all that gray and crappy looking songs.
Thanks,
Darshan
Just got the trial version! Works like a charm! My music in iTunes was a disaster, but this could really help that. It could only clean 100 songs and get 50 cover art though. I’ve been putting off getting a new iPod because my music library was such a mess. But if I can get TuneUp gold, then it will be well worth it! Keep up the great work!
Looks good
im using iTunes
How can I get this for free?